by Site Owner | Apr 21, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
Portland Street Food Vendors’ Recipes By Tiffany Harelik The History Press, $19.99, 143 pages Author Tiffany Harelik has came out with the first of a series of cookbooks, focused on American street foods. Volume one of Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook...
by Site Owner | Aug 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, Portland Authors
By Finn J.D. John The History Press, $19.99, 144 pages “…Portland’s reputation back east had changed little since the 1850s…a sober, hardworking frontier town full of brave pioneers.This made it a virtual Venus flytrap for suckers from back...
by Site Owner | Feb 17, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, Portland Authors
By Polina Olsen, The History Press, 160 pages A retrospective optimism invariably pervades the memories of Jewish immigrants to the New World. In Portland, as elsewhere, hardships became nostalgia as families strove to establish a mercantile niche, sometimes borrowing...